Interviews

The Spec Script Library

Screenwriter : Carl Barbee

From his room with a view,
Carl writes from Cherry Valley,
California

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What is your passion?

Great films that take me away from it all, for two hours

What is your pride?

My creative gifts, I feel very blessed my them.

What is your greatest fear?

Not living up to those gifts.

What does adversity do to you?

Makes me stronger.

What is your best quality?

I shoot from the hip.

What is your worst quality?

Over thinking.

What irksome habits do you have?

Trying to do too many things, at one time.

If you could have your time again, what would you do that is different?

I would not change a thing, everything has lead me to this point in life.

What would you like to change about yourself? About others?

Very little, I like who I am. Others -
Let them be who they are, even if I don't like who are.
It's a great freedom.

How important is goal setting to you?

Goal setting is dreaming, and dreaming is important.
Without it there is no creativity.

What goals do you have?

To write and make films, that let people feel a little better,
when they leave the theatre.

What is your ultimate goal?

People Choice Award and Thirty plus film Resume before I die.

What heroes do you have?

Anyone who help others, without expectations of what's in it for them.

What inspires you in others?

Love, Compassion, Hope.

What inspires you in yourself?

The possiblities of living my dreams.

What will be written on your headstone?

It was along time coming.

What does success mean to you?

Being happy with who I've become, and who I maybe.
And the great people I have met
along the way.

How do you measure success?

Friends.
Anyone who dies with more than a handful of real friends,
is a sucess in life.

What are your pet hates?

People who think the world revoles around them.

What are your pet loves?

The fact that the world doesn't revolve around us, we revole with it.

What do you think of pets?

I love them.

When are you happiest?

When I am working.

When are you hardest to please?

When I am not happy with my own results.

What has been your most embarrassing moment?

Twenty years ago I got arrested for being drunk and stupid, and I was threating every cop in the station. Then I come too. I felt a half inch high.

What's the most exhilarating thing you have done?

Driving a very fast car at it limit, and at my limit as well. "whew the cruves"

What is it about screen writing that gets your fired?

The Imagination, the dreams that can come true, you can go anywhere and never leave your seat.

What screenplays have you written?

A western "Rifle", A short film "Touched", A Sci fi story " The winds of Supertition", A light comedy " Wake up America", Another light comedy
" Ghostwriters", and dramas "Questions of Guilt" and "Turn the page".

What is your favorite pastime?

Hmm? Good question. I have many, but friends come first.

What is your favorite motto?

Whatever the mind of man can concieve and believe,
he can achieve.

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